Shabeg Singh

Shabeg Singh (1925-6 June 1984) was a Major-General of the Indian Army who assisted in training Mukti Bahini guerrillas during the Bangladesh Liberation War before taking part in the Golden Temple siege in 1984 on the side of the Sikh militants.

Biography
Shabeg Singh was born in 1925 in Khiala, Punjab, British Raj to a Sikh family, and Singh joined the Indian Army in 1944. Singh served in World War II in the British Army during the Burma Campaign, ending the war in Malaysia, and he joined a parachute brigade of the Indian Army after the war's end. He trained the Mukti Bahini guerrillas of Bangladesh during the Bangladesh Liberation War, fighting against Pakistan. In 1977, he left the military, but in 1984 he joined the Sikh militants that occupied the Golden Temple of Amritsar. Singh was killed by his former brothers-at-arms during the siege.